Hello Carlson1. Welcome to OCDO! This is the very best place on the Internet to learn about OC and get a goodunderstanding of the issues and challenges facing others in open carry states. If you haven't already - I'd like to invite you to join us at TCDL. We are the organization that is fighting for this right in Texas. OCDOwas very instrumental in helping TCDL get off the ground and I encourage you toexplore the various forumsand participate in the discussions here. We look forward to seeing you at TCDL too.
Best regards,
Gary Williams
President, TCDL
http://www.txcdl.org
txopencarry@txcdl.org
The TSRA is not interested (the lobbyist - Alice Tripp) to introduce any open carry next legislative session. Moreover she is not event interested to introduce a bill removing the requirement to conceal for permit holders. She talked to me in person 2 days ago at the Republican convention in Houston and stated it is a non-issue for members. Well, let's make the phone rings.... Maybe they need to hear from us all day..... Also, contact Jim Dark, too! Just call the main number and ask for both of them.
Ok, then do this.
JOIN TSRA. Seriously, if it's the membership that matters, then become a member and be part of that voice. TSRA has done very good work on other issues, and the best thing you can do is be a member of both TSRA AND TXCDL and TSRA as a MEMBER to sponsor licensed open carry.
Alice Tripp stated that all the states that have OC had it on the books for a very long time and none passed OC any time recently.......
Count wrote:Alice Tripp stated that all the states that have OC had it on the books for a very long time and none passed OC any time recently.......
And before states started passing Shall Issue no one had passed it in a very long time.
The real key to immediately doubling or tripling the support is to make the case correctly to the concealed folks.
Many of them BELIEVE in concealed carry (I do) and don't want to open carry, or don't see the point (I do see the point and want to do so.)
Humans are, well, human, and it is tempting for those who haven't thought this throught use precisely the same types of arguments that gun control advocates use to oppose CHLs or any other law allowing more law-abiding citizens to be armed if they so choose.
E.g., it will scare the children; no one needs to do that; your gun makes me nervous; the bad guy will take it from you; the bad guy will shoot you first, etc etc.
The message that must be conveyed first is this:
Concealed Carry is good; so is open carry.
Everyone should have the right to choose and to protect themself and their family.
No one has to be armed. No one has to obtain a CHL. No one has to carry openly.
But which choice to make is best left to each individual.
A license is a privilege not a right. As aFIRST step I'll take licensed open carry.